The Reason you have to use the Sky Router

This is a discussion on The Reason you have to use the Sky Router within the Sky Router forums, part of the Sky Broadband help category; Well I just put the router together and connected everything except the phone line and I now know why you ...

So you can setup your connection settings that you get from your ISP like username, password etc.

Well in the Sky box you only have the following

Setup
Wireless Settings

So unlike the normal Netgear there is nowhere to configure your connection settings, I guess thats why the MAC Address of the router is so important. So I am sorry to say to everyone who had plans to try there existing routers like me will be unable to do so.

One good thing though the rest seems to be ok and is easy to edit and setup the way you want it. Namely admin password can be changed as can the Wireless Settings. SSID, WPA-PSK Key, Channels and if you use a Dynamic DNS Service as I do thats also there.

I hope this will now answer some of the questions a lot of people have been asking.

Some Advice.. Its always advisable to inform your old ISP as soon as you have migrated that you have moved.
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If you would like to know the straight line distance to your exchange thenclick here
Would you like an idea of the possible speeds you will get with the Max Package then click here or for the Connect Package then click here

I'm sure that you can request the details to use your existing equipment as nowhere does it state that you have to use the Free Router so as far as I'm concerned I can and will use my existing one as I did'nt pay £40-£60 for my router for nothing a while ago.

Some Advice.. Its always advisable to inform your old ISP as soon as you have migrated that you have moved.
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If you would like to know the straight line distance to your exchange thenclick here
Would you like an idea of the possible speeds you will get with the Max Package then click here or for the Connect Package then click here

I have read everything on it and it does not say anything about using their own equipment.

If as you say the above is true then there is little or no need for you to ask the question since its stated in the link I posted in my last reply and its also been talked about on here in a number of posts.

Some Advice.. Its always advisable to inform your old ISP as soon as you have migrated that you have moved.
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If you would like to know the straight line distance to your exchange thenclick here
Would you like an idea of the possible speeds you will get with the Max Package then click here or for the Connect Package then click here